Case report: An incidental finding of a left-sided supernumerary kidney by Aklilu Getachew, Nathan K. Suga, Jochebed K. Suga, Nuhamin D. Kiflemariam

“…Reporting such uncommon anomalies is important for several reasons, such as improving diagnosis and treatment, educating clinicians and radiologists about the identification and treatment of supernumerary kidneys, and comparing the case to existing literature to highlight similarities and differences in presentation, management, or outcomes. …”
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Developing and validating a scale for non-academic staff’s service competencies in higher education by Phan Thi Nga, Amjad Shamim, Rohani Salleh

“…Though scholars have given significant attention to research on service quality in higher education, there is limited research exploring the contribution of non-academic staff to enhancing service quality at higher education institutions. One reason for the lack of empirical research on this topic is the absence of a measurement scale for the service competencies of non-academic staff (NONACA-SERCOM) in higher education institutions. …”
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Improving expected shortage estimations in the base-stock policy by accounting for undershoots by Eugenia Babiloni, Ester Guijarro

“…Therefore, the Expected Shortage per Replenishment Cycle, ESPCR, is an essential indicator in inventory management for several reasons. On the one hand, it gives information about the number of units not served in each cycle, and on the other hand, it is fundamental in determining service levels or shortage costs. …”
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Metrics for code obfuscation based on symbolic execution and N-scope complexity by Yuqiang XIAO, Yunfei GUO, Yawen WANG

“…Code obfuscation has been well developed as mitigated endogenous security technology, to effectively resist MATE attacks (e.g.reverse engineering).And it also has important value for the reasonable metrics of code obfuscation effect.Since symbolic execution is widely used in anti-obfuscation attacks, metrics for code obfuscation resilience can refer to the efforts of generating input test set for executing all program paths.However, some adversarial techniques could reduce the symbol execution efficiency significantly based on the nested structure of the program and increase the error of the resilience reference.To solve the above problems, a metrics for code obfuscation was proposed based on symbolic execution and N-scope complexity.The obfuscation resilience was defined with symbolic execution time and obfuscation potency was defined based on the proposed N-scope complexity for better robustness in measuring the resilience of multi-nested structure programs.Furthermore, the correlation analysis of obfuscation effect was proposed and the effect was quantified by symbolic execution and control flow diagram extraction of programs.Over 4000 obfuscated programs from 3 open-sourced assemblies were evaluated with proposed metrics in the experiment, which indicated the generalization performance and practicality of the metrics.And an example of this metrics application was presented in a simulated obfuscation scenario which provided references of obfuscation technology metrics and obfuscation configuration for obfuscation users.…”
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CASUALISATION OF WORK IN CONSTRUCTION, AND THE PLIGHT OF WORKERS IN BLOEMFONTEIN by Lesiba Mollo, Fidelise EMUZE

“…The study explored the reasons why unemployed people are choosing to become casual workers, and the challenges that they face in the construction industry. …”
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Armenia: an Uneasy Choice Between Russia's New Initiatives and the EU Eastern Partnership by M. Y. Vardazaryan

“…The article identifies the reasons of "freezing" Armenian-Russian relations in early 2013. …”
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A Strength Design Method of Cemented Backfill with a High Aspect Ratio by Zhi-zhihui Wang, Ai-xiang Wu, Hong-jiang Wang

“…As for the backfill with a high aspect ratio of height to length, the shape of the slip surface is not straight when in the active state due to the limited space, which is different from the general backfill. For this reason, a formulation of the slip surface with a curved shape and a lateral pressure calculation method based on this curved slip surface were proposed. …”
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Impact of Guideline Markings on Saturation Flow Rate at Signalized Intersections by Zhengtao Qin, Jing Zhao, Shidong Liang, Jiao Yao

“…The proposed model was validated using a before–after case study. The underlying reasons for the impact of intersection guideline markings on the saturation flow rate are discussed. …”
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Analysis of Modal and Vibration Response of Gearbox of Urban Rail Train by Chen Zhongwei, 2Lu Ning, Yang Jianwei

“…The random vibration analysis indicates that reasonable gearbox structure design can encourage good external vibration response. …”
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De la meilleure façon de constituer une collection. Le cas des émaux « byzantins » de Mikhaïl Botkine by Aglaé Achechova

“…A thorough investigation by the designer of the house of Fabergé, François Birbaum, enabled the secret workshop that had produced most of the enamels in Mikhail Botkin’s collection to be discovered in 1914. The reasons for a collector to put together, apparently with full knowledge of the facts, a collection of fakes may be many: the control of the quantity and the quality of the pieces he was collecting, the mastery of the competition of the elimination of the concerns usually encountered: the rarity and uncertain provenance of the objects.…”
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La représentation paradoxale du chemin de fer chez Dickens : fantastique et mythe au service d’une peinture de la modernité dans Dombey and Son (1848) et « No. 1 Branch Line. The S... by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…But what appears more surprising and paradoxical is the use of archaic elements, such as myth, and teratological images—as in Dombey and Son—to depict modernity. The reason may lie in the fact that trains or factories, belching fumes and staining everything about them, were seen as dangerous, all-powerful, voracious monsters and that writers were powerless in front of such disturbing, unprecedented phenomena and had to fall back on familiar, reassuring narrative techniques to come to terms with them. …”
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Dynamic Simulation Analysis of the Antiswing Device for Ship-Mounted Batch Transfer Hanging Basket by Jianli Wang, Haolin Li, Shenghai Wang, Haiquan Chen, Yuqing Sun

“…The force on the four control ropes has been reduced by ∼24.1%, 23%, 26.4%, and 25.1%, resulting in the force that is more reasonable and enhancing the safety of hanging basket system. …”
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CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY: TEXT – CODE – SYSTEM OF REPETITIONS AND KEY-NAMES by Artyom V. Drobyshev

“…This is seen as the key reason for a great variety of interpretations of modern archaeological sites and text. …”
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Forecast of China’s Carbon Emissions Based on ARIMA Method by Longqi Ning, Lijun Pei, Feng Li

“…The results can provide guidance for decision-makers to set reasonable carbon emission reduction targets and take appropriate energy conservation and emission reduction measures.…”
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Speed Limit Compliance Index (SLCI): A Conceptual Method to Enhance the Efficiency of the Advisory Intelligent Speed Adaptation System by Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri, Riza Torkan, Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah

“…The experiences of pioneers have revealed that the intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) system reasonably has brought a promising future to speed management and road safety. …”
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Le développement durable face à sa crise : un concept menacé, sous-exploité ou dépassé ? by Jacques Theys

“…One possible explanation for this fading is that “sustainable development” has been deeply embedded in the context of the globalisation process which began at the end of the eighties and ended with the economic crisis in 2008. Another possible reason is the overuse – and misuse- which has been done of this badly defined notion during the last twenty years- with a weak efficiency: the ambiguity – which has strongly contributed to its historical success-, turns now to be a factor of distrust. …”
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The Experimental Studies on Behavior of Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete Confined by Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Tubes by Zong-cai Deng, Jiu-ling Qu

“…None of the models provided a reasonable prediction for strength and strain of HFRP-confined UHPC specimen; therefore, a new ultimate strength and strain perdition model considering the confinement effectiveness of different hybrid FRP series was proposed. …”
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The effectiveness of monitoring as a necessary condition for the adoption of correct decisions on the security оf technosphere by V. M. Mikhailov

“…Organizational structure of monitoring with reasonable time and address of the measurement mode taking into account the main features and stages of forming controlled natural and technogenic processes should ensure the acquisition of data needed for further calculations of the start time of earthquakes, territorial distribution and levels of water or air pollution, etc. …”
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Study on Settlement Influence of Newly Excavated Tunnel Undercrossing Large Diameter Pipeline by Qian Xu, Wenchao Zhang, Cheng Chen, Jun Lu, Peng Tang

“…By studying the relationship between the grouting reinforcement range and the vertical distance from the newly built tunnel to the existing pipeline, it is found that the soil engineering effect within 0.3 d above the arch line is more reasonable, and the feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified through actual monitoring data. …”
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URBANIZATION, MIGRATION, AND HUMAN SECURITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA by Damian Kehinde Adesegha, Adeshina Iyanuoluwa Omotayo

“…Migration is also global phenomenon that involves a complex and multifaceted process that deals with the movement of individuals or groups from one geographical location to another for various reasons. Today, urbanization continues to be a major trend worldwide, with more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas. …”
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